There and Back Again, a geek girls tale of #heweb09

HighEdWeb 2009 just wrapped up as a resounding (overall) success. It’s to my increasing satisfaction that this conference gets better and better every year. We’re setting the bar for mix of content and social interaction that, from what I’ve seen and heard from attendees, isn’t really matched anywhere else. The winning mix of great presentations, [...]

Facebook Pages continued

Well after hours of poking and prodding at Facebook, here’s what I’ve got to show for it. To setup your page, click “Businesses” in the Facebook footer. At the Business Services page, choose “Facebook Pages”. Then you create your page: You’ll be asked to establish what type of page (Education) and the name of the [...]

Facebook Pages

Facebook just announced the addition of a feature they’re calling “Facebook Pages”, which adds an interesting twist to the recent (and not so recent) ongoing discussions among higher ed pros about the uses of Facebook for recruiting, retention, and general communication with our various student audiences. The Facebook Blog entry really only focused on use [...]

Somebody shoot me while I’m happy!

“I am too lazy to chase down the exact quotation but the British astronomer Fred Hoyle said something to this effect: That believing in Darwin’s theoretical mechanisms of evolution was like believing that a hurricane could blow through a junkyard and build a Boeing 747. No matter what is doing the creating. I have to [...]

Anna Nicole

Holy cow, this was a shocker! The buzz around her death has been tremendous (and who friggin cares how TrimSpa is going to recover?), and I’ve got friends who have reacted very strongly…but the only thing I can think of (outside of that poor baby girl) is that we now know who all the drag [...]